Vulnerability fixed in Jetpack 4.0.3. Severity: 6.1 (Medium) By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. An XSS vulnerability has been fixed in Jetpack version 4.0.3 which was released yesterday. If you haven’t automatically been updated to Jetpack 4.0.3 please update immediately. The CVSS score we have calculated for this vulnerability is 6.1 (Medium). If you…
What Hackers Do With Compromised WordPress Sites By Dan Moen for WordFence. Original here. We often talk to site owners who are surprised that their sites are targeted by attackers. Most of them assume that if there isn’t any juicy data to steal, like credit card numbers, that compromising their site is a worthless exercise.…
hreflang: The Ultimate Guide By Joost de Valk for Yoast SEO. Original here. hreflang is a technical solution for sites that have similar content in multiple languages. A site owner wants search engines to point people to the most “fitting” language. Say a user is Dutch, the page that ranks is English, but there’s also…
Vulnerability in User Role Editor – Users Can Become Admins By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. There is a major vulnerability in a popular plugin with over 300,000 active installs: User Role Editor 4.24 and older. The vulnerability allows any registered user to gain administrator access. For sites that have open registration, this is a…
How Attackers Gain Access to WordPress Sites By Dan Moen for WordFence. Original here. On this blog we write a lot about different vulnerabilities that could lead to site compromise. In our Learning Center we go deep on a myriad of important topics related to WordPress security. Our handy checklist, for example, includes 42 items…
Yoast SEO plugin tutorials By Marieke Van de Rakt for Yoast SEO. Original here. Do you encounter any difficulties configuring your Yoast SEO plugin? Want to know more about all features and settings of the Yoast SEO plugin? We have great news for you! Joost has made a series of Yoast SEO plugin tutorials for every…
Ask Yoast: Google PageSpeed score By Joost de Valk for Yoast SEO. Original here. In Ask Yoast we handle your SEO question! This time we received a question from Stefan Wohlert from Venlo, just around the corner here in the Netherlands. He asks: “How important is the Google PageSpeed score for SEO?” In this video we explain…
Social Media Strategy: where to begin? By Marieke Van de Rakt for Yoast SEO. Original here. Social media are a necessary part of any marketing strategy, but they should also be a part of your SEO strategy. As social media become more popular, Google and other search engines can’t ignore them any longer. Tweets and…
How to optimize your real estate site By Michiel Heijmans for Yoast SEO. Original here. There is a significant difference between a real estate site and a ‘regular’ website. Real estate sites have temporary content: when an estate is up for sale, there is a page for it online. But when it’s sold, it tends to…
Original post by Dan Moen on Wordfence.com here. During our research into what the WordPress community knows about hacked websites, we discovered that there is very little data available on the subject. We decided to conduct a survey, inviting a portion of our community to participate. We received responses from 1,605 people who reported having a website…